Overclocking a Q6600 on a EP35C-DS3R Motherboard, please help

I've never tried to overclock any part of my system before, probably because I have no idea how. But I just bought some new RAM, Gskill 1066mhz, and I thought to myself: If I can get my CPU to 3.2ghz I'll be happy. I just have a small problem, I don't know how to overclock.

I was told that I should try and keep the FSB on the CPU as close as possible to the frequency of the RAM, and that overclocking involves tampering with the FSB of the CPU, so does that mean I will have to overclock the RAM as well?

Now I thought that I should mention this, When I bought the RAM, I didn't notice much of an increase in performance, so I asked my friend for a bit of help, he suggested that I give the new RAM an extra 0.6 volts of juice because I was running 800mhz RAM before the upgrade which he says runs at 1.8 volts.

I did this and I noticed a marked difference in performance, but he also told me that the latencies should be 5-5-5-15, however when I went into the MIT in the BIOS I noticed that the latencies were 5-7-7-20.

Should I leave them the way they are, or is it better to change them to 5-5-5-15?

We need your motherboard brand and model...
Have you performed some Gurgle searchs for overclocking your particular motherboard... are you sure it can be overclocked. What will you use the overclocked system to do.
You are on your way... be patient as you await somebody familiar with your motherboard to get online.

The Motherboard I have is the EP35C-DS3R from Gigabyte, and the main thing I will be using it for is Gaming. I'm kind of addicted to Call of Duty 5 at the moment.

I'm pretty sure that the motherboard can be overclocked as it says so proudly on the box two or three times. By the way, why would it matter if the motherboard can be overclocked or not? I'm after a CPU overclock. Sorry for asking something that's probably commonm knowledge, but I'm new to overclocking.

Thank you for that, I will take a look at those site you mentioned. As for the motherboard, I believe it says that the FSB can be overclocked to 1600mhz, but don't you divide that by four to get...something imporatant?

Turn off C1E in the bios. Set the clock divider to 1:1 and up the CPU clock a step at a time. Just increase the Dram voltage if you need to. I have my Q6600 to 3.5GHz and the 667 memory to 870MHz under Vista Home Premium, SP2. Windows 7 Ultimate RC won't let me run past 3.4GHz using the same hardware configuration. It gets BSODs past 3.4GHz

Yes. Good board, and lots of possibilities. Read up. You not only need to know the procedures for overclocking and testing, but for returning back to basic status if things go wrong.
I wouldn't expect you can get the answers you need at TechSpot, initially, because you will require more information than can be available in these small posts.
There is information on the Gigabyte site, and found with a Gurgle search for Gigabyte overclocking, that particular board model, and in general. If you are near a magazine store or computer supply store, there are a lot of good magazine-sized guides on what to do.
For instance, www.xicomputer.com "How to Overclock your CPU; www.microsoft.com/Windows "Computer Overclocking"; Book of Overclocking; PC Overclocking, Optimazation & Tuning by Dudometov; Tips, Secrets & Hacks by Karp; CompTIA A+ Complete "Overclocking"; and Build It Yourself - The Ultimate Game PC by Durham
among many others.
Once you have skimmed through some of that material, you are on your weigh.

Raybay,
there's no need to go though all this now. These motheboards will protect themselves and automatically go back to safe settings if pushed too far. Just be aware to use a good 3rd party CPU cooler like the ZeroTherm Nirvana and good heatsink covered memory...

I'm not too sure about the dual BIOS, I've gone through the little book that came with the motherboard but can't find anything refering to it having a dual BIOS. I'll go onto Gigabyte's product overview page. Why do you ask?